The making of Tartarus!, step by step...

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Start with designing the shape of the head.

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Continue, you will notice in the bottom left corner the SBS I kept.

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Start the flames

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Used liquify to change the shapes of some of the flames.

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Used the same filter to color the skull, but kept an extra copy of the skull in case I didn't like the changes.

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Did some work with overlaying the background and slightly erasing an extra copy of the skull until I had the effect I wanted.

final result